New Mexico

[dak]

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I just hatched out 24 beautiful little Serama chicks, 2 Delawares, 2 SS Hamburgs, 2 Egyptian Fayoumis and 1 lone little Spitzhauben chick. 3 more incubators full of eggs due to hatch in a week!

Serama Babies
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7036_100_1278.jpg

2 Serama's next to a Delaware chick hatched on the same day
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7036_100_1261.jpg

The bunch of them in a brooder
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7036_100_1281.jpg

So how many days did it take for the Seramas to hatch?

 

[Colie <3]

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Ummm, how many birds did you say you were allowed to have where you live?

LOL I'm getting inspected next week and I'm going to request 25 adults versus the 6 I'm allowed without obtaining a permit. My real problem is I'm only allowed 3 roos! Gotta figure out if I can talk my way into at least four

I can't keep everyone I hatch gotta be picky but if I lived on a farm you better believe I'd have 100+ chickens no problem lol

 

[Colie <3]

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I just hatched out 24 beautiful little Serama chicks, 2 Delawares, 2 SS Hamburgs, 2 Egyptian Fayoumis and 1 lone little Spitzhauben chick. 3 more incubators full of eggs due to hatch in a week!

Serama Babies
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7036_100_1278.jpg

2 Serama's next to a Delaware chick hatched on the same day
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7036_100_1261.jpg

The bunch of them in a brooder
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/7036_100_1281.jpg

Cute!! Although when I see chicks on a nice quilt I go ewwww bird poop!

 

[cathunter10]

Colie <3 :

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Ummm, how many birds did you say you were allowed to have where you live?

LOL I'm getting inspected next week and I'm going to request 25 adults versus the 6 I'm allowed without obtaining a permit. My real problem is I'm only allowed 3 roos! Gotta figure out if I can talk my way into at least four

I can't keep everyone I hatch gotta be picky but if I lived on a farm you better believe I'd have 100+ chickens no problem lol​

I am selling my 5 acres with pens already built.You want to move to Tularosa.
Bill

 

[dak]

Colie <3 :

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Ummm, how many birds did you say you were allowed to have where you live?

LOL I'm getting inspected next week and I'm going to request 25 adults versus the 6 I'm allowed without obtaining a permit. My real problem is I'm only allowed 3 roos! Gotta figure out if I can talk my way into at least four

I can't keep everyone I hatch gotta be picky but if I lived on a farm you better believe I'd have 100+ chickens no problem lol​

Ameraucanas and silkies may be hard for an inspector to sex, sooo....

 

[Colie <3]

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LOL I'm getting inspected next week and I'm going to request 25 adults versus the 6 I'm allowed without obtaining a permit. My real problem is I'm only allowed 3 roos! Gotta figure out if I can talk my way into at least four

I can't keep everyone I hatch gotta be picky but if I lived on a farm you better believe I'd have 100+ chickens no problem lol

Ameraucanas and silkies may be hard for an inspector to sex, sooo....

exactly! LOL I have some silkies that I have nooo idea if they are cockerels or pullets and I'd bet they wouldn't know the difference either unless somebody is crowing. I only plan on keeping the ameraucana girls just for eggs since they would be pretty darn easy to tell apart from silkie eggs. I have a 10 week old ameraucana right now I can't decide what the sex is. I thought forever she was a pullet but today she was the first one to challenge the new older silkies so now I'm wondering...

 

[dak]

Colie <3 :

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Ameraucanas and silkies may be hard for an inspector to sex, sooo....

exactly! LOL I have some silkies that I have nooo idea if they are cockerels or pullets and I'd bet they wouldn't know the difference either unless somebody is crowing. I only plan on keeping the ameraucana girls just for eggs since they would be pretty darn easy to tell apart from silkie eggs. I have a 10 week old ameraucana right now I can't decide what the sex is. I thought forever she was a pullet but today she was the first one to challenge the new older silkies so now I'm wondering...​

Post a pic on the Ameraucana thread. At 10 weeks someone will tell you quick.

 

[blaundee]

I have 14 eggs that are on day 15 now... we shall see!!! A few of those eggs are Cochins

I got some breeding pens set up, and now my big Lav Ameraucana rooster is in with 2 Silver Laced Wyandottes. In a month or so he will be in with some barred rocks (are you happy, DAK?! lol We are going to have some lavender barred next year

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[dak]

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I'm telling you, once you get a pure line of Lav/Barred EEs people will be knockin on your door. Just do your research on the Barred gene, it's sex linked. You might need to do a Barred rock boy to Lav girls. I think you need to look at it that way on the genetics calculator through the f2 generation.

 

[blaundee]

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I'm telling you, once you get a pure line of Lav/Barred EEs people will be knockin on your door. Just do your research on the Barred gene, it's sex linked. You might need to do a Barred rock boy to Lav girls. I think you need to look at it that way on the genetics calculator through the f2 generation.

Yeah, Ive been reading about it being sex-linked, so hens only have one barring gene- which makes it difficult to make them all uniform. Also, I wonder if the lavender will be too light to really show up on the hens, like with buff barred/lemon cuckoo hens...
We'll see!!!